South Australia - Mining
Petroleum
Also see Place Names - Coorong.
An editorial on "Petroleum" is in the Observer,
29 July 1865, page 5b,
21 July 1866, page 3e (supp.).
"Search for Petroleum" is in the Register,
16 July 1866, page 2h, Observer,
21 February 1874, page 10c.
"The Coorongite at the Provincial Gas Works" is in the Chronicle,
26 April 1873, page 13f.
Petroleum in South Australia is discussed in the Register,
24 April 1873, page 4f,
17 and 24 October 1913, pages 6d and 5g,
24 January 1914, page 14h,
Observer,
7 March 1914, page 49d,
Register,
29 May 1914, page 12g,
8 June 1914, page 11b,
Advertiser,
9 June 1914, page 11f.
Also see The Mail,
25 July 1914, page 5a,
Register,
1 October 1914, page 6c-h,
31 December 1914, page 6f,
1 and 6 January 1915, pages 3g and 9g,
Advertiser,
16 and 20 February 1915, pages 6i and 19g,
26 March 1915, page 12b,
Register,
25 June 1915, page 4f,
18 August 1915, page 4c.
Also see Register,
12, 15 and 17 April 1916, pages 6g, 7f-g and 4e,
4 October 1916, page 6g,
11 December 1916, page 6f,
24 January 1917, page 7b,
16 April 1917, page 5f,
11 August 1917, page 9f,
Chronicle,
28 June 1919, page 36a.
A paper presented to the Chambers of Manufactures on the possibility of the presence of petroleum in SA is reproduced in the Register,
16 February 1874, page 5e,
"Petroleum and Coal in SA" is in the Chronicle,
21 February 1874, page 11f,
Farmers Weekly Messenger,
25 December 1874, page 9c.
"The South-Eastern Oil Springs" is in the Observer,
17 July 1875, page 7b.
Information on the Salt Creek Petroleum Oil Prospecting Company is in the Register,
8 and 18 February 1881, pages 4g and 5b,
19 November 1881, page 5c,
Chronicle,
24 March 1883, page 16b,
on the SA Petroleum Company in the Express,
30 October 1888, page 3b.
"Mount Hogarth Shale" is in the Chronicle,
26 July 1890, page 2e.
The discovery of bitumen in the South-East is reported in the Observer,
22 June 1895, page 30d,
13 July 1895, page 31a-b,
3 and 17 August 1895, pages 29e and 43c.
"The Encounter Bay and Yankalilla Shale Deposits" is in the Observer,
4 June 1892, page 39a,
"Searching for Oil" on
20 June 1903, page 37c,
"Coorong Oilfields" on
27 June 1903, page 34b.
"The Coorong Oilfields" is in the Register,
24 and 27 June 1903, pages 6g and 6i,
"The Oil Discoveries" on
28 July 1903, page 3i,
"Oil or - What?" on
8 October 1903, pages 5c and 8g.
An obituary of T.U. Scrutton is in the Observer,
11 February 1905, page 34d.
"A Substitute for Petrol" is in the Advertiser,
9 July 1917, page 6f; also see
27 February 1918, page 6e,
"The Search for Oil" on
11 November 1920, page 6f,
2 December 1920, page 6f.
"Oil Prospects - The South-East Visited" is in the Advertiser,
27 June 1921, page 7c; also see
2 and 15 July 1921, pages 10e and 7c,
"Indication at Kingston" on
15 September 1922, page 14e.
"South East and Oil" is in the Observer,
26 April 1924, page 49a.
"Is It Oil" at Victor Harbor is in the Advertiser,
27 May 1920, page 6d.
Also see Register,
15 July 1920, page 9h,
17 November 1920, page 8d,
24 March 1921, page 7e,
27 and 28 June 1921, pages 5f and 4f,
1, 2, 4 and 13 July 1921, pages 3f, 10a, 3f-g and 3d,
18 June 1925, page 9e,
Advertiser,
10 September 1925, page 21d,
5 October 1925, page 12e,
24 February 1926, page 14c.
"The Southern Ocean Oil Co Ltd" is in The Critic,
6 July 1921, page 11 (includes photographs).
"Oil in South Australia - Various Indications" is in the Advertiser,
17 and 24 May 1922, pages 12a and 11a; also see
Express,
14 September 1922, page 2c.
"Australia and the Oil Age" is in the Register on
9 July 1923, page 6d,
"Oil Prospects - Remote in South-East" on
24 February 1926, page 6a.
"Coal and Oil" is in The News,
13 October 1923, page 2f,
"Indicators of Petroleum - Some Facts and Fallacies" in the Observer,
8 December 1923, page 54a.
"South-East and Oil" is in the Observer,
26 April 1924, page 49a.
"The Search for Oil" is in the Advertiser,
30 March 1926, page 12e,
28 May 1926, pages 12f-13d; also see
15, 16 and 18 November 1926, pages 13d, 13f and 14e.
"SA Oil Wells Co - Stock Exchange Action" is in the Register,
16 November 1926, page 9e; also see
Chronicle,
20 November 1926, page 52a.
"Search for Oil" is in Register,
18 November 1926, page 11e,
The News,
20 September 1928, page 12e.
"Boring for Oil" is in the Advertiser,
18 March 1927, page 16g; also see
21 November 1929, page 18e.
"Will Oil be Found in South Australia?" is in The News,
19 January 1935, page 6f.
